Free Destourian Party

The Free Destourian Party is a Tunisian nationalist and populist political party which was founded by Hamed Karoui on 23 September 2013 with the goal of uniting supporters of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and the Constitutional Democratic Rally under one banner. The party was ultranationalist, populist, nostalgic of an authoritarian past, hostile to parliamentarism, and very critical of democracy, and it gained momentum due to its vehement opposition to Islamism and its accusation that the Tunisian Revolution of 2011 was the result of a foreign plot. While the party's secularist and anti-Islamist rhetoric placed it in the camp of the political left, Abir Moussi fiercely opposed equality of inheritance, opposed the decriminalization of homosexuality, and supported the "protection of the Tunisian family". In the October 2019 parliamentary elections, the Free Destourian Party won 17 seats, making it the fifth-largest party in the country.